Cleats by Bill Hinds for June 21, 2015
Transcript:
Jack: Dad, I was thinking - should I be a pro soccer player first, or a pro skateboarder? Gary: Son, you should explore the possibility that you'll end up as neith of those. Deanna: What your Dad is saying, Jack, is that it's unlikely you won't end up being a pro athlete. Gary: Actually I meant he hasn't given pro football enought thought.
cdward over 9 years ago
About half the countries on the globe I received as a kid no longer exist.
Geldhart over 9 years ago
Almost anything can be used as a springboard to education. Way to go Grampa
cdward over 9 years ago
Probably what it says is that the biggest European colonies were in SE Asia and Africa. They eventually succeeded in getting European powers out, but that opened a long period of instability. And of course, Cold War Europe changed because of the end of the Cold War.
Earle H Landry over 9 years ago
Read Jared Diamond and Ian Morris for the details, if you read.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
cdward: Instability is common in new countries, particularly those with a violent origin. A decade into this country’s independence, it was a crime to criticize the president.